"As a Party member, I feel compelled to lend a hand whenever I see someone in need," said Sheng Enli. A retired serviceman known among locals as the "Hero of Fire and Water", Sheng has rushed into blazing fires five times and jumped into water to rescue people four times over the past two decades. In 2021, he was honored as a National Moral Model in the eighth selection.

Sheng Enli. Photo by Han Jiawei

Recently, an interview team visited the Xiejia Power Supply Station under the State Grid Meishan Pengshan Power Supply Company. This station is characterized by having the largest service area, the most complex customer base, and the highest average age of grid managers among all stations in the region. Its 31 employees serve 13 administrative villages. The number of households in Sheng's designated service area has grown from 400 to more than 2,700, maintaining a 100% customer satisfaction rate. The Moral Model Workshop named after him is based here, and the station also serves as a district-level New Era Civilization Practice Base.

In March 2020, a residential house in Gongyi Town caught fire, trapping a 104-year-old woman surnamed Kang. Sheng, who was repairing a roof at the time, immediately cut off the power and gas supply upon seeing the situation. He carried the elderly woman to safety on his back before rushing back into the burning building to remove tiles and create a firebreak.

Such acts of bravery have become second nature to him: in 1998, he jumped into a river to rescue Mao Yongqiang, whose leg had been lacerated by rocks, and bandaged his wound; in 2000, while conducting line inspections, he leaped into turbulent waters to save Wei Jun, who had fallen in; and in 2015, he charged into a burning home occupied only by two elderly residents to organize firefighting efforts.

Sheng has never been absent in the face of disasters. During the Luding earthquake, he joined an emergency repair team that rushed to the scene overnight; during the Zhengzhou flood, he deployed to the affected area as a member of a vanguard Party member team; and during the pandemic, he connected temporary power supplies for prevention and control checkpoints and helped quarantined residents pay their electricity bills on their behalf.

In Sheng's view, saving lives is vital, but ensuring reliable power supply for fellow villagers is equally important. After retiring from military service in 1997, he spent his days working on-site and his nights studying textbooks, eventually becoming a "living map" of his jurisdiction. For 12 elderly left-behind residents who use basic mobile phones, he has persisted since 2017 in visiting them on the 28th of every month to help top up their electricity accounts and inspect wiring. He and his colleagues also replaced 100 meters of corridor pipelines and more than 600 light fixtures free of charge for the unmanaged Hongqi Residential Community. Through livestream sales, they helped an elderly person living alone sell fruit trees, fulfilling the resident's wish to own a refrigerator. They also established a "Charity Materials Depot" where anyone in need can take supplies at any time. The volunteer service team continues to bring light to more corners of the community.

This simple kindness stems from his mother. At the age of six, he witnessed his mother jump into a river to rescue a woman who was washing clothes, an act she described as "tantamount to saving an entire family". He has kept these words in mind and put them into practice for half his life.

Today, Sheng has worked at the power supply station for nearly 30 years. He says he has done nothing earth-shattering, merely "doing my job well and helping wherever I can". It is precisely this ordinariness that has gathered warmth: when his son once went missing, hundreds of townspeople joined the search, and those he has rescued often visit him. One light kindles another, and civilization ripples outward through mutual care and support.

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